Global Collapse

Chapter 42 Happy New Year everyone!

When the landlady finished speaking, Qinghuan, who was standing next to her, was already on the verge of collapse.

Gu Mian saw that his hair was standing on end and his face was pale.

When he came out of the landlord's house, his steps were still unsteady, and he almost fell. Fortunately, Gu Mian caught him quickly.

"If you're so timid, why are you even going into a dungeon?" Gu Mian looked down at him.

The first time entering a dungeon was mandatory, but now players should be entering voluntarily. It can't be that someone points a gun at someone and forces them into a dungeon.

Qinghuan's face was pale: "For survival, to avoid starving to death... to stay alive..."

He stammered, "Don't you know? Things are getting chaotic outside the dungeon, near my house. People are even breaking into homes and robbing people..."

"You might think this is an exaggeration, but that's how it is. Groups of people roam the streets, robbing anyone they see."

"There's no signal, we can't contact the police. The country is so big, and different regions can't communicate with each other, so it's impossible to give orders. Even if the government wanted to intervene, it would be difficult."

"Besides, although I'm not a very good student, I did pay attention in history class. Doctor, don't you think this game is like the history of human evolution?"

"Throughout history, it has always been a dog-eat-dog world. How many countries in history have been invaded by the strong because they did not strive for progress? How many people with backward civilizations have been sold into slavery?"

"The situation now is so similar to that time. Humanity all over the world is beginning to evolve. If we don't become stronger, we will be weak and can only become victims."

"This evolutionary game has only just begun. Many people may not realize it yet, but I believe that when the gap between the strong and the weak gradually widens, history will repeat itself."

Although this is not the zombie-infested apocalypse depicted in horror movies, it is a different kind of apocalypse.

It forces everyone to become stronger, or face a terrible end.

Qing Huan looked at Gu Mian: "Doctor, since this evolution game started, haven't you encountered anyone who had ulterior motives towards you?"

"Plotting something sinister?" That sounds like they're trying to rape someone.

Gu Mian stroked her chin: "Of course I've encountered that. It was a group of people trying to steal things."

"And then?" Qinghuan seemed a little curious.

"And then?" Gu Mian put her hand down: "Then I almost sawed their heads off."

Qinghuan: "..."

It was past four o'clock when we arrived at the restaurant where we were to meet.

But the others didn't complain; instead, they waited there with detached expressions, seemingly lost in thought.

It wasn't until Gu Mian put the chainsaw down from her back that they seemed to come to their senses.

"What's going on with you guys?" Gu Mian asked Yuwen Hao.

Yuwen Hao swallowed hard before speaking, "I was thinking about the investigation we conducted today... We went to Huang Yu's place first..."

"Huang Yu received a terrifying phone call, so of course we started our investigation from the phone call... We asked the landlord if anyone had died in that house, and whether the deceased had any connection to the phone call."

"But the landlord said that no one had ever died, and no one had ever encountered any paranormal events."

“At first we didn’t believe it, so we asked Huang Yu’s neighbors and people living nearby, but they all said the same thing: they had never heard of any paranormal events.”

"It's strange, just when we were at our wits' end, Huang Yu's landlord suddenly came to us and said he suddenly remembered something..."

He said that the phone number for the apartment Huang Yu rented had been changed not long ago because the old number was considered unlucky, and the landlord believed in such things, so he specifically changed the phone number.

"The landlord said that what happened to us might be related to the phone number we just changed."

"We then copied down the phone number and went to the service center to check, and sure enough, we found that the phone number was problematic!" "The previous owner of this phone number was Zhou Guanglei. Because he died, the phone number was canceled. Coincidentally, he also lived in this town."

When Yuwen Hao finished speaking, he picked up his cup and took a sip of water.

The three of them had a lot of work to do, investigating houses and checking phone numbers to find the owners.

"We followed the clues and got Zhou Guanglei's parents' phone number and work address, but he's from out of town, and his parents don't live here at all. When we called them, they knew nothing."

"There was no other way, so we went to his workplace. Luckily, the place hadn't gone out of business yet."

When Yuwen Hao got to this point, Gu Mian suddenly asked, "What is Zhou Guanglei's workplace?"

Yuwen Hao paused slightly: "It's a plastics factory, called Mingliang Plastics Factory."

really……

This was also the workplace of Zhao Wen, who was killed by the door-knocking ghost.

Upon hearing this, Qing Huan opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but Gu Mian stopped her: "Let Yuwen Hao finish speaking first."

Yuwen Hao glanced at the two of them with some curiosity, but didn't ask any further questions. He continued, "When we arrived at the plastic factory to investigate, we discovered that more than one person had died there!"

"Several years ago, someone was burned to death, and two more died later, one of whom was Zhou Guanglei."

"The person who partnered with Zhou Guanglei at the time was still working there, so we asked him about things before Zhou Guanglei died, and that person actually knew quite a lot."

“He told us that Zhou Guanglei was acting very strangely before he died. He kept saying that someone was knocking on his door, but no one else could hear the knocking…”

At this point, Yuwen glanced at Gu Mian.

He originally thought that the knocking sound Gu Mian mentioned had nothing to do with ghosts, but now it seems that's not the case.

Could it be that the doctor actually moved a stool, stuck his head out, and started cursing at the ghost?
Thinking of this, he shook his head, then pulled his thoughts back: "Zhou Guanglei was alright at first, just a little paranoid, but he got worse as time went on."

"He kept muttering things like 'getting closer' and 'getting even closer,' and eventually he just stayed home, not going to work or showing his face at all."

"This situation lasted for about a week, and then Zhou Guanglei's colleagues started receiving calls from him one after another..."

"It wasn't a normal phone call... Zhou Guanglei was acting like he had something wrong with his head back then, constantly making phone calls in the middle of the night... and the content was..."

"...It's also a little scary."

"Those who received his calls late at night back then said that Zhou Guanghai would say things like this when he called them—"

"You've been to my house, haven't you?"

"Stop knocking!"

"What's wrong with you?"

"Then the phone call content changed again...it became like this..."

"where is your house?"

Are you home alone?

"I'm outside your door."

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